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@szbalint@mastodon.social It's an interesting idea, but a few things to consider:
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AC is expending on average, what, ~300W additional energy into the environment? If an AC and a set of awnings kept two identical houses at the same temperature, the AC would be strictly worse.
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Houses exhibit the greenhouse effect. Solar energy that you bounce off the house may be re-radiated into space, while photons that enter the house are almost 100% converted to thermal energy.
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ACs often bring houses below the no-AC ambient temperature, while shutters/awnings merely prevent houses from rising above it.
Quantum computing is going great:
https://github.com/GiancarloLelli/quantum/pull/1
The code submission that won 1 BTC for using a quantum computer to "crack" small ECC keys works exactly the same if you replace the quantum computer with /dev/urandom.
This isn't about brute-forcing a small key. It's the other way around: The quantum computer was being *used as* an RNG! 😆
@Skabber@hachyderm.io You're looking for a highly skilled person and requiring them to use The Deskilling Engine?
You may need to increase salary to compensate.
If cannabis is so great, why don't they sell cannater?
@nolan@toot.cafe I'm not much into betting, but I wonder if you'd like to make a prediction.
What do you think is the probability that six months from now, you would be able to prompt an LLM to create a program with the following constraints?
- Complexity on the order of IndexedDB
- Not reimplementing something that already exists (I have several reasons for this constraint)
- Accordingly, not driven off of a pre-existing test suite
- High enough quality that you would risk your family's privacy and security on it
- Maintainable code (either by human or further LLMs)
- Takes at most a workday for prompting + manual fixups
- API costs of at most $500
Or, how far out do you think it would be before this seems 90% likely to work?
(Feel free to quibble with any of my constraints. I chose those because that's what it would take to impress me.)
@nolan@toot.cafe I mean, I definitely think it can do an awful lot of jobs... badly. :-) The question for me is whether companies are actually OK with that reduction of quality. I'm concerned that they will be, at least in the short to medium term.
I do think that LLMs can often find vulns, and in the hands of an expert can assist in securing software. Otherwise it's just a flood of crap, as the article notes.
But coming back to my original question:
Is that code you generated usable?
- Would you feel comfortable if your daily browser used this generated code instead of hand-written? Would you install it on your family's computers?
- If no, what would it take for your answer to change?